Beloved Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart ’32 served more than four years in the military during World War II as a flight instructor and bomber pilot.  Though 32 years old when the war broke out and thus unlikely to be drafted, Stewart was the first Hollywood star to enlist in the Army.  Initially rejected for being underweight, he went on to lead more than 20 missions over Germany and occupied France, rose from the rank of private to full colonel, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.  When Stewart retired from the Air Force Reserve in 1968, he was a brigadier general and the highest-ranking entertainer in the U.S. military.  He is quoted on the walls of the Frist Campus Center.

• To learn more about Jimmy Stewart, see icon #4 and quotation #37.
  
  
• To learn more about Princeton during World War II, see quotation #7 and 37, and Café Vivian picture #65, 82, 113, and 120.
  
  
• To learn more about Princetonians in the arts, see quotation #24, 29, 36, and 37, and Café Vivian picture #55, 67, and 94.
  
  
• To learn more about notable Princeton undergraduate alumni, see icon #4, 5, and 10, quotation #3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 36, 37, and 41, and Café Vivian picture #1, 5, 7, 15, 17, 39, 41, 55, 57, 59, 74, 76, 84, 99, 101, 102, 107, 110, and 123.

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